Volume 21 discussion

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asphodel
Volume 21 discussion

As I mentioned in the Prologue note, it's a new era in Mirage! We veer in a very different direction at this point--it's going to be a wild ride. Let me know what you think!

asphodel
Disgruntled

I don't know about you, but Takaya in vol. 21 ch. 5 feels completely OOC to me--a blatant twisting of his character to make him join the Red Whales. Just look at his history: he spends his entire existence hitting back hard against anybody trying to manipulate or coerce him, and here he allows himself to be strong-armed by Ushio into going with him? Recall Endou in vol. 15--a regular kid who's been kind to Takaya, who's begging Takaya not to get him in trouble, and Takaya turns completely against him. There's none of that here, because it serves the plot!

There's a flimsy line about Takaya being concerned about Ushio being kanshousha and the Red Whales misusing his power. If he were concerned about that, there's a whole truckload of kanshousha awaiting his attention back where he came from. I don't buy it, and I feel disgruntled that Kuwabara is doing this hard sell instead of going for something more natural.

Full disclosure: I don't like any of the new characters, and that's probably coloring my perspective quite a bit. So far this Death Note-style turnabout is not working for me.

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